This was a battle were, as a CinC, I thought to have everithing under control.
I was surprised by the allied deployment at the beginning but I thought it was possible to recover from that unexpetcted manoeuvre.
Colbert was deployed north of the objective with only one infantry brigade and a battery keeping the other infantry brigade on the objective to hold it. His orders were to guard the bridge on the river from the high ground south of it. If the enemy pressure was too high he could recall the other brigade to face the enemy.
I was northeast with a second infantry division supported by Taff's cavalry division. I was waiting the bigger threat from here because the terrain was a bit more opened and with more manoeuvres possibility, especially for cavalry.
I was wrong.
When Colbert spotted Sandman's division and then Klaus division it was clear that the enemy would try to outflank Colbert's position.
I immediately sent one of my brigades to the objective to relieve Colbert's brigade so he could use it to stop the outflanking manoeuvre. I moved the rest of my division on Colbert's right with all the artillery reserve and ordered Taff to move to Colbert's left to help him against sandman's cavalry. The idea was to crush his cavalry (we had numerical superiority in that situation) and than we could have the possibility to attack him more easily.
Then three things happened: first was Taff misenterpreted the order and moved to northeast of his actual position. I ordered to move northeast of the objective, on Colbert's left but probably my message wasn't too clear. So Taff found himself in a bad position, into a wood and in elevation disadvantage. Anyway he was able to hold Klaus and Asid on their positions for most part of the battle.
The second was Colbert moving too much north, near the river and close to sandman's and probably Klaus artillery. He quickly lost his first brigade and then was too difficult to hold against sandman's following attacks.
I defended my position with only one brigade, helped by four batteries. Probably it was better to move also the brigade on the objective (I moved them near the end of the battle, too late). They were only 1800 men but at that stage of the battle they could help a lot. This was the third mistakes.
At the end Asid's and Klaus combined attack made a breach on our defense while sandman was still pushing against Colbert's left flank.
So we lost the battle because of the great losses we suffered. Honor to the enemy